Men continue to amaze me...

11.3

Boys are funny.
Or clueless. Whichever you prefer.
Since school started, I have gotten fourteen (fourteen!) Facebook messages from men I have either never met, or with whom I am barely acquainted. This is more than one message per week. Men on campus: don’t you have classes with girls? Are you desperate?
What makes them think the messaging of strangers is a good idea? One said:
“So I went to the "Do you know this person" section on Facebook, and your name came up. I thought to myself, "Who is this person?" So I looked up what I could, and I thought you seemed pretty cool. So hi, I'm X, and I hope you think I'm cool too.”
Sorry to X, because I do think X seems pretty cool. His message just happens to be one I have not deleted, which is why I’m copying it straight out of my Facebook inbox. We actually have a lot in common, and he is probably a great guy. I wasn’t creeped out, and he seems smart, which is a plus. But the fact remains: X and I have never met.
X’s message was pretty tame compared to others, some of them saying something along the lines of, “wow, you’re really hot, we should get together sometime.” Usually this basic sentence is riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, which is another testament to how little these boys know of me.
Some of them comment on my columns, which is equally hilarious, because usually I am berating men and my experience with relationships. None of these men are telling me that they are going to be my knight in shining armor; none of them say they want to prove me wrong about men. They just want to “get together sometime.”
My ex continues to provide fodder for the gender cannon, further proving that boys are funny and clueless. He thinks that by posting pictures of himself doing body shots off ugly girls will make me jealous. It really just makes him look sloppy and desperate.
It would take him getting his act together and dating a Petra Nemcova lookalike and a MENSA membership to boot to make me jealous.
The fact of the matter is, courtship and relationships could be simple if we’d allow it. Getting to know someone isn’t hard, figuring out if you like someone isn’t hard. Why should dating them or breaking up with them be hard? I have personally always found the breaking up part to be quite simple, but that’s beside the point.
Hooking up with someone you don’t know or making someone jealous is not the way to his or her heart. That may be the way to a few weeks of shallow fun, but I’ve realized that college is the last place I’ll be that’s filled with eligible bachelors. Luckily, I happen to have someone in mind, sans awkward Facebook messages and ridiculous pictures designed to make me jealous.